Toronto pseudo-elections
Oct. 22nd, 2018 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby Looks like it's mainly coming in as a vote for the status quo and whiter than both a pumpkin spice latte and the person drinking it.
Some highlights so far:
The walking sweater vest won a second term as mayor in a landslide despite selling out the city to Drug Fraud and being essentially a useless milquetoast wafflebot. Keesmaat, the former city planner, wasn't even close.
My candidate lost by what looks like about 300 votes. Which is shitty but when you think of how much Liberal money was behind his opponent, I'm not terribly surprised.
My first choice for school trustee lost to my very close second choice. I have a lot of respect for both of them so I'm not horribly disappointed, though I really wanted more POC on the Board. The trustee for my school's ward is one of my favourites and a legit strong advocate for public education and she won, so that's good news.
In a small beacon of sunshine, Mammoliti, the worst councillor and literal wannabe supervillain, is out.
As far as I can tell, none of the new fresh faces are in. Though Nrinder Ninn, who I knew way back as a cool person, was elected in Hamilton.
Worst of all, Faith Goldy, a literal neo-Nazi running for mayor, came in third. Before Saron Gebresallassi. It's a distant third, but it's still 25,000 people in this city who want to throw me and most of the people I care about into a gas chamber. This is why we no-platform fascists—she'd be a fringe candidate if she didn't get so much breathless media coverage.
There was some truly gross shit that happened this election. I won't go into it in detail but some of the blatant ugliness and infighting that ensures that leftists never win anything went down. I'm so tired of being this tired. Electoral politics aren't everything—they're not even most things—but given the attacks that will certainly happen on my city by an out-of-control far-right provincial government, I was hoping for at least a tougher, more progressive city council.
To make things worse, this is probably the last municipal election we'll have before they abolish the things, and we had to be boring about it.
Back to the plodding, unglamorous fights, I guess. In the meantime, I'm going to have some popcorn and watch telly and hang out with the cats.
Some highlights so far:
The walking sweater vest won a second term as mayor in a landslide despite selling out the city to Drug Fraud and being essentially a useless milquetoast wafflebot. Keesmaat, the former city planner, wasn't even close.
My candidate lost by what looks like about 300 votes. Which is shitty but when you think of how much Liberal money was behind his opponent, I'm not terribly surprised.
My first choice for school trustee lost to my very close second choice. I have a lot of respect for both of them so I'm not horribly disappointed, though I really wanted more POC on the Board. The trustee for my school's ward is one of my favourites and a legit strong advocate for public education and she won, so that's good news.
In a small beacon of sunshine, Mammoliti, the worst councillor and literal wannabe supervillain, is out.
As far as I can tell, none of the new fresh faces are in. Though Nrinder Ninn, who I knew way back as a cool person, was elected in Hamilton.
Worst of all, Faith Goldy, a literal neo-Nazi running for mayor, came in third. Before Saron Gebresallassi. It's a distant third, but it's still 25,000 people in this city who want to throw me and most of the people I care about into a gas chamber. This is why we no-platform fascists—she'd be a fringe candidate if she didn't get so much breathless media coverage.
There was some truly gross shit that happened this election. I won't go into it in detail but some of the blatant ugliness and infighting that ensures that leftists never win anything went down. I'm so tired of being this tired. Electoral politics aren't everything—they're not even most things—but given the attacks that will certainly happen on my city by an out-of-control far-right provincial government, I was hoping for at least a tougher, more progressive city council.
To make things worse, this is probably the last municipal election we'll have before they abolish the things, and we had to be boring about it.
Back to the plodding, unglamorous fights, I guess. In the meantime, I'm going to have some popcorn and watch telly and hang out with the cats.
